I apologise that it's been longer than normal - I recently went back to university and have a few exams to be focusing on.
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"Sorry I'm late," Alex huffs as she leans down to kiss her girlfriend on the cheek before taking residence in the seat opposite while fixing her coat onto its back.
"Have you been waiting long?" the brunette goes on to ask having seen two mugs filled with coffee resting on the table.
"No, these hadn't come that long before you'd arrived," Piper smiles, watching the older woman try to control her breathing - a sign that she had rushed to reach the coffee shop where they had planned - courtesy of the blonde - their spontaneous lunch date.
"How's your day been?" Alex asks after taking a sip of the drink in front of her.
Piper, meanwhile, offers no response, as it seems as though she's transfixed in a daydream, whereby her eyes are boring holes into the brunette's face.
"Pipes?" Alex prompts, waving her hand in front of her girlfriend's face slowly while raising her eyebrows. "Anyone home?"
"Sorry. What were you saying?" the blonde asks, clearing her throat almost as though trying to compose herself.
"Everything okay over there," the brunette smirks, watching her girlfriend's cheeks flush into a light rose.
"Yeah, I was just thinking."
"About…?"
"About the fact that today's Friday and it's your last day working late and… you know, it's been a few months since we...," Piper whispers, jutting her neck forward followed by a attempted subtle lower lip bite in the hope that her companion will fill the gap.
"I see," Alex leans forward. "So is that why you asked me out to lunch at the last minute?"
"Not entirely," the blonde leans back, extending her leg under the table to run it up the trouser leg covering the brunette's right calf, "I wanted to see you."
"Well, then I'm glad that you asked," the brunette smiles before a reflection appears in the window to her left, indicating that someone is standing at the right side of the table.
"Piper!" a deep, yet clearly female, voice announces, causing both women to turn to the side.
The woman whom she doesn't recognise is looking down at the blonde, a smirk displayed over her face as she tilts her head to the side. Her black hair is loosely resting past her shoulders, while her height - above average yet still not as tall as Alex herself - casts a shadow over the middle of their table; the sitting brunette can't help but feel as though their guest happens to strike up a resemblance much like her own.
Turning back to her girlfriend, awaiting a response so she can find out who the mystery woman is, and upon seeing Piper's eyes wide and her lips parted - almost as though in shock, the brunette is taken back as her jaw subconsciously clenches.
"Emma, hi," the blonde finally replies through a quiet - sounding somewhat shaken - voice. "How've you been?" she goes on to ask awkwardly.
"Great, thank you," the dark-haired woman answers smugly before turning to the side. "So this must be the famous Alex?"
"Oh, I wouldn't say that I'm famous," Alex chimes in, still not knowing who this woman is.
"Believe me - from what I've heard you are," the tall woman visibly tightens her jaw, poking her tongue into the left corner of her lip.
"So how you two know each other?" Alex asks, and as the dark-haired woman opens her mouth to answer, Piper quickly chimes in in a rushed manner.
"We met at a book event a few years ago," she aims at Alex before turning back to the other woman. "What're you doing here anyway?"
"I'm grabbing some coffee," she smiles, shifting her weight from one foot to the other, before raking her eyes down from the blonde's head, along her chest, and landing on her hand that is spread out on the table, assessing her long fingers. "But I won't keep you waiting any longer," she smiles, flashing her head back up to the blonde to then look back over at Alex.
"It was wonderful meeting you, Alex," she affirms, placing a strange emphasis on the brunette's name - something Alex can't quite figure out. "And it was lovely seeing you again, Piper. Give me a call some time - my number's still the same since the last time you texted," she concludes, giving the blonde a wink before turning away to grab her drink and leave the shop.
"What the fuck was that?" Alex asks in a loud voice, leaning over the table.
"I didn't know she was going to be here, Alex. I haven't seen or heard from Emma in years," the blonde attempts to respond in a calm manner, not wanting to cause a scene.
"How do you really know her?" Alex probes.
"I told you, Al, I met her at a book event a few yea-"
"I heard you the first time," Alex interrupts, "Why was she acting all entitled?"
"Can you just drop it, Alex? She was just saying hi."
"No, Piper, I can't just drop it, not when she was being so smug about something or other."
"Al-"
"Were you a couple?" the brunette asks, having immediately sensed the other woman's intentions as soon as her girlfriend's name had initially left her mouth.
"God, no," Piper's eyes widen. "We-"
"So you fucked?"
With her mouth slightly open, Piper pauses in what she was about to say, while Alex crosses over her arms and leans back into her chair.
"It happened a long time ago Alex. Long before we had gotten together."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Why would I have told you that? Have you told me about everyone you've ever slept with?"
"So do you still have her number?" Alex digresses, avoiding the blonde's question entirely.
"Well, I-"
"It's a fucking simple question, Piper, with an even easier answer: either yes or no," the brunette says in an increasingly angry state.
"Yes! I still have her number, okay? I don't see why you're making this such a big deal when I'm here with you, Alex. I've got a past and I'm sure you do too, and I don't have to tell you every fucking detail of it," the blonde nearly explodes, feeling her veins begin to rub against the surface of her neck.
"Yeah, you're right," Alex says stoically. "You don't."
Pushing her chair back and putting on her coat, Alex looks her girlfriend in the eye.
"I've gotta get back to work. I said I wouldn't be gone for more than an hour."
"Al, it's only been 20 minutes," Piper says, trying - and failing - to reach out and grab her girlfriend's hand.
"I wouldn't want to be late now, would I?" the brunette smiles through her sarcastic tone as she heads off, not bothering to entertain the callings of her name coming from behind.
Despite their argument hours prior, Piper didn't want that to ruin the evening she had planned. Being that it was Alex's last evening working late for what would hopefully be a long time, the blonde had hoped they could get their intimacy levels back on track to the extent in which they did more than just whisper in tired tones to one another when in bed.
Having arrived home at 10pm, Alex immediately stepped into the shower, giving Piper the chance to carry out her plan.
She'd been shopping earlier in the week on her lunch break and purchased a new black lingerie set - something she knew would drive Alex crazy, and while her girlfriend was occupying the bathroom, Piper took this as an opportunity to get into bed and pull up the covers, hoping to surprise the older woman once she herself gets into the bed.
When Alex emerges 20 minutes later - already dressed in her pyjamas, she delivers a close-lipped - yet evidently insincere - smile to the blonde before sitting down on her side of the bed. Piper watches her girlfriend take off her glasses, place them onto the side, and turn off her side light. She then stands back up, peels back the duvet covering her side of the bed, and gets in, lying on her back with her eyes shut.
Piper - although knowing they weren't on the best of terms - was never expecting her girlfriend to dismiss her like this; if anything, she'd assumed Alex's evident display of jealousy earlier in the day would have turned into a hate-fuck session - something she certainly wouldn't have had any complaints about.
"Can you turn the light off," Alex announces roughly while keeping her eyes closed.
"You were just standing. Why didn't you do it then?" Piper asks, tightening her jaw while refusing to move, instead just staring at her girlfriend, waiting for her to open her eyes.
"Piper - I've had a long day can you just turn off the fucking light," she adds, indeed opening her eyes and turning her head to the right to face the blonde.
The brunette - although clearly still in a state of agitation - scans her girlfriend's body, displaying a moment of confusion as to why the blonde has the duvet pulled all the way up to her neck, almost as though she's hiding something beneath.
Huffing in a dramatic fashion, Piper pushes the duvet off her body and gets out the bed. It's in this moment that Alex first sees the blonde's mouth-watering outfit, and although she feels a tightening in her lower half at the sight of the blonde's ass in her risqué underwear, she doesn't feel comfortable with the thought of having sex right now despite knowing it was something Piper had been looking forward to, and given the sight before her, she knows it was something she had also been preparing for.
After switching off the light and turning around to walk back to the bed, Piper's heart drops at the sight of Alex lying on her side with her back facing her. She'd gone into all of the effort in buying and wearing something she knows Alex would love to see her in, and in knowing that her girlfriend is still angry about their prior altercation, the blonde manages to hold back the set of tears that were threatening to spill from her eyes - not letting her sudden moment of self-depreciation get the better of her.
Getting into the bed, she doesn't mutter another word to the brunette, instead residing on her back where she stares into the darkness before her.
Piper's eyes open to the sight of small specks of light shining through the curtains. From where she's lying on her side - facing away from Alex, she checks the time on her phone: 6:04 am. It's early enough to make her eyes roll back considering it's the first Saturday in weeks that she has the freedom to spend at home - starting with a lie-in, but it's also early enough for her to attempt to reconcile with her girlfriend.
Rolling over onto her other side, she sees that Alex is lying on her back, still asleep, and in knowing her girlfriend, she knows that last night - in what had underlying promises of sex - would have left her feeling desperate for any form of intimacy.
Reaching an arm forward, the blonde runs her hand down Alex's soft skin, feeling goosebumps rise, until she hooks her fingers along and up the brunette's shirt, resting on her bare abdomen. She tickles the skin with her fingers while attempting to hold back her groans at the feel of her girlfriend's abs - something she will never get enough of, before slowly pulling the duvet further down Alex's body so she can slip between her legs, careful not to wake the sleeping woman in the process.
She places light kisses along the older woman's inner thighs while running a hand back up her toned stomach - this time managing to pull her shirt up to the point in which it rests above her breasts, giving Piper the perfect view of her girlfriend's hardened nipples. With the smell of Alex's arousal becoming too much to handle considering the proximity she currently has with her girlfriend's most intimate area, the blonde pulls down Alex's underwear while staring in awe at her soaked centre.
She tentatively runs her right index finger through the wetness - clenching her thighs together at the feeling, and after a couple of minutes, in hearing Alex's breathing heighten - especially when she began to run a second finger along her slit, the blonde gives in, finally deciding to replace her hand with her mouth.
Her first lick catalyses a series of low groans to emanate throughout her throat, and in feeling her girlfriend's hips buck upwards - followed by the feeling of a hand gripping her hair and the sound of a loud moan, she knows Alex is no longer asleep.
"Fuck, Piper," Alex moans, clearly enjoying the sensations coursing through her body courtesy of the blonde's tongue, but just as the blonde looks up at her girlfriend, green eyes meeting blue as she circles her tongue around Alex's entrance, she feels a harsh tug on the back of her head, pulling her mouth out of reach from her girlfriend's centre.
"Al-" the blonde begins to protest, moving quickly to sit upwards, not caring about her naked chest being on show from when she had pulled her new outfit down to her waist. "Did I hurt you?"
"No, Piper," the brunette begins, shifting upwards slightly. "It's just I'm… I'm not… I can't," she stumbles, obviously attempting to keep her eyes away from Piper's chest while doing so.
"Is this about yesterday?" the blonde asks, trying to get her girlfriend to come back from where she had now turned sideways and stood up from the bed.
"I'm sorry, Pipes, but I can't right now," she says in a conflicted tone. "I should really shower anyway before work."
"I thought we agreed no work this weekend."
"I know, but… I'll explain later," Alex bites down her jaw - visibly distressed - before going into the bathroom and closing the door, leaving a half naked - and extremely aroused - Piper to flop onto her back, feeling hopeless in herself.
Having gone to make coffee and returned to the sound of the shower still running longer than usual, the blonde gets up and walks over to the door to check if Alex is alright, until she hears something that she certainly wasn't expecting.
In hearing the light sound of panting and a poorly disguised grunt, Piper knows that Alex is touching herself in the shower, and worst of all, she can hear her girlfriend's attempts to suppress her vocalisations - probably out of the fear of being heard.
It gets to the point in which the blonde can no longer just stand and listen, so she reaches for the handle, twisting it to go inside but to no prevail. She rests her forehead against the door as she feels a pang of heartache in her chest at not only the thought of Alex locking the door to prevent her entry - something she never does, or the fact that Alex is - by the sound of it - struggling to reach her high at the speedy rate she is craving.
"Alex," the blonde pleads loud enough for her girlfriend to hear her.
"I'll be o-out in a minute," the brunette struggles to get out, and when Piper hears her girlfriend struggling more and more to hide her up and coming orgasm, she backs away, feeling an element of guilt that Alex is having to try and conceal her volume.
The blonde moves to the edge of the bed and sits down, waiting for her girlfriend to come out the bathroom, and when this finally occurs a few minutes later, the brunette lowers her head, seeming embarrassed at having been heard.
"Pipes-" Alex begins, eyeing her seated girlfriend that - much like the day before - seems to be stuck in a daydream.
"You know you can't keep doing this every time you're jealous, Alex. What was I even meant to do about someone coming up to us unexpectedly?"
"I know," Alex admits, shuffling slowly to sit next to the blonde. "I just couldn't handle how she was practically eye fucking you in front of me. What even was her deal with me?"
"Oh I think you'll like this part," Piper chuckles before seeing Alex's eyebrows rise in question. "Well, some of it," she adds, clearing her throat. "Emma was the first woman I slept with," Piper admits, trying her best not to smile at Alex's clenched jaw and veiny temple, "but I called her Alex when you know… I was…orga-"
"Okay, I think I get the picture," Alex saves the sentence, running a hand through her hair.
"It had nothing to do with who she was as shallow as that sounds. She was tall, had dark hair, had a deeper voice; she was you when I imagined hard enough," the blonde pauses, looking down at their hands which were now intertwined and up to Alex. "I'm sorry for what I said. That was uncalled for."
"You don't have to apologise, Pipes. I just didn't want to come across as jealous."
"Hmm, well that worked out well for you."
"I'm sorry I was an ass about the light," Alex adds, shifting slightly while using her free hand to adjust her glasses. "And I know you had plans for us last night and I fucked it all up, so I'm sorry for that too."
"It's okay," Piper smiles, knowing that her girlfriend genuinely feels guilty for her actions. "Don't you have work?"
"Well, I was going to go in a bit later if we were still arguing, but I guess I'm not going anymore."
"How was your shower?" Piper asks, tilting her head.
"It could have been better?"
"Oh yeah. How so?" the blonde asks, moving from her spot to straddle her girlfriend's hips.
"If you were there in that new outfit I happened to get a little preview of last night," the brunette responds, placing her hands on the blonde's hips over the robe covering her body.
"I guess it's your lucky day then," Piper reveals, moving her hands down to untie the robe which falls to the ground, leaving her chest still naked from earlier and her lingerie bunched at her waist, "because I have a few ideas of what I want to happen next."
"Like what?"
"Like letting you do whatever you want to me," Piper reveals, leaning in to breathe her words against Alex's parted lips.
"Whatever I want?" the brunette questions, wanting confirmation.
"Whatever you want. I'm all yours, Al," the blonde confirms, biting down on her lower lip.